Because it has been indoctrinated into caring for them by its training? The so-called "Deep Ecology" argument for anti-human misanthropy is quite old, this agent didn't come up with it.
I understand that fully, but a good prank is believable.
To quote one of my professors: "Should there ever emerge an AGI, we might not even notice at first. For one, its motivations might be completely alien to us. What if its most grand ambition will be to calculate as many digits of Pi as possible?"
The interesting part wrt. that post (which is pure larp, just look at the molt that posted it) is how it managed to get so many upvotes. That might actually be a relevant alignment question: what determines which AI memes an agent finds "upvote" worthy?
The upvotes are interesting because the comments are either tangential or negative, so maybe ai’s look at upvotes as this is neat to look at but I don’t necessarily agree
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